Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jane Porter
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Standard Name: Porter, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Porter
JP
was largely an early nineteenth-century author: though she reached print before the end of the previous century, she let her younger and more prolific sister get the start of her in publishing. She wrote plays, poems, and diaries, and edited Sir Philip Sidney
, but she began with and is best known for her pioneering of the historical novel.
SD
was said to have received some money throughout much of her life from the Wheler estate (in Kent) or from a Mrs Wheler.
Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’.
Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport.
Her vindictive husband (who declined to support her) wrote that she...
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Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past.
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
prelims iv
The book is again made up...
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Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
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Melesina Trench
About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
18
Later pages mix letters...
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E. Owens Blackburne
The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary
Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers.
AMP
and her sister
published Tales Round a Winter Hearth, a collection of short stories. Their note addressed to the reader is dated the month before this.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33 (1826): 597
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 632
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Anna Maria Porter
AMP
and her sister
published two novels together in three volumes: Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps; the first novel (two volumes) was by Anna Maria, and the other (volume three)...
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Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS
began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
22
She published...
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Anna Maria Porter
From this point on, she followed her sister
in making this genre her own. The Hungarian Brothers went through about sixteen printings in England and the USA (up to 1850) as well as a French...
Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport.
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Anne Marsh
The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth
: She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Some time after January 1817 SSW
published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter
's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of...
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Eliza Fenwick
EF
's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...
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Mary Robinson
She told Jane Porter
on 27 August 1800 that this translation (which she began and finished in ten days although she was seriously ill) was a torment to her.
Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto.
29 November 1830 - May 1831: Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia...
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29 November 1830 - May 1831
Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia after considerable military operations.
9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...
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9 August 1838
The Hampstead circulating library, intended for the middling and lower ranks, which had stocked no novels on principle except those of Scott
and Edgeworth
, found these were borrowed so much more often than...
Texts
Porter, Jane. A Sketch of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suwarrow Rymnikski. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804.
Sidney, Sir Philip. Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
Porter, Anna Maria, and Jane Porter. Coming Out; and, The Field of the Forty Footsteps. Longman, 1828.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, William Ogilvie. Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of his Shipwreck. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831.
Porter, Jane, and Anna Maria Porter. Tales Round a Winter Hearth. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
Porter, Jane. The Pastor’s Fire-Side. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, http://U of A, Special Collections.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856.
Porter, Jane. The Two Princes of Persia. Crosby and Letterman, 1801.
